Photo by Jeff Vanuga A quick email can help ensure better funding for wildlife in Wyoming Simply put “Support  HB 136 and HB 137″ in the subject line By Sophie Osborn The Wyoming Game and Fish Department and Wyoming’s wildlife need your help this week. Despite enacting significant cost-cutting measures and streamlining its operations over […]

        MEDIA STATEMENT January 11, 2013   Media Contacts: Bruce Pendery, Wyoming Outdoor Council program director, 435-760-6217 (mobile); 435-752-2111 (office), bruce@wyomingoutdoorcouncil.org Jon Goldstein, Environmental Defense Fund senior energy policy manager, 505-603-8522, jgoldstein@edf.org   Environmental Groups Encouraged by Action Plan to Address Pinedale Ozone Problem Pinedale, Wyo. — The Wyoming Outdoor Council and […]

This ran in the Jackson Hole News & Guide yesterday: Click image for larger PDF.     Other posts you might want to see: Winter Frontline 2012-2013, the Wyoming Outdoor Council Newsletter The Upper Hoback will be protected in perpetuity Major Announcement: Agreement Struck, Citizens to Buy-Out Hoback Leases

By Richard Garrett, Jr. Your voice for conservation at the Wyoming State Legislature Happy New Year from Wyoming’s Capitol The Wyoming State Legislature convenes tomorrow, January 8, through February 28, 2013. And as always, I will be in Cheyenne full-time attending the entire session and committee meetings and advocating on behalf of Wyoming Outdoor Council […]

  “This buyout is a testament to sheer doggedness and dedication—and to the power of assembling a diverse group of allies to get the job done.” —Terry Jones   Click here or on the image of the newsletter to read the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s winter 2012-2013 Frontline.     Other posts you might want to […]

By Lisa McGee DEAR MEMBERS AND SUPPORTERS, Today, thanks to the generosity of so many—including so many of you reading this—the Upper Hoback Basin will forever be safeguarded from oil and gas development. I can think of no better way to greet the New Year than with this fantastic news. Plains Exploration and Production Company, […]

By Janice H. Harris President of the Wyoming Outdoor Council board of directors   Each year, the Emily Stevens Book Fund, sponsored by the Wyoming Outdoor Council, invites Wyoming county libraries to select a title from a list of terrific books, all focused on natural history and the environment. Last year, I shared the 2011-2012 […]

Everyone is invited to the second annual “Listening to Nature” event, 5:15-8 p.m., Friday, November 9, at the University of Wyoming’s Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center. Enjoy world-class artwork and a lively set of brief, nature-based readings by students and alums of the University of Wyoming Creative Writing program, faculty in the arts, sciences and humanities, […]

This photo of bighorn sheep rams, by Elaine Haberland, is among the winners and will appear as a featured image in the our 2013 calendar.   Twelve different photographers have had their images chosen for inclusion in the Wyoming Outdoor Council’s 2013 calendar. Thanks to everyone who submitted photographs this year! We received a record […]

Star-Tribune: ‘We hope the [effort] is successful’ Excerpts: “The group still has to raise about half of the total purchase price by Dec. 31 for the deal to be completed. The trust has already raised $4.5 million in pledges and promises. Deborah Love, the Northern Rockies director of the Trust for Public Lands, told supporters […]